Nesting a comp… but I want it to loop!

[Joey Foreman]

Apply Time Remapping to your nested comp. Option-click the Time Remapping stopwatch, hit the Expression Language Menu icon (the 4th little icon), go to Property, and select the Loop Out expression:

loopOut(type = “cycle”, numKeyframes = 0)

Or you can just copy the expression above and paste it into the expression field.

Be sure to extend your layer duration afterward.

Joey Foreman
Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist

[Andrew Devis]

Have you tried the loop option in interpret footage?
Andrew

… because it’s all about stories …

[Joey Foreman]

I don’t know if things have changed in CS5, but Interpret Footage has only ever been available for footage, not compositions.

Joey Foreman
Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist

[Adrian Le roux]

erm….

how do I see the expression field please?

Thanks

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[Joey Foreman]

As soon as you option-click the stopwatch for Time Remapping, you’ll see it appear to the right in the timeline. The word timeRemap will be highlighted in blue. At that point you can paste (command-v) the expression, or type it out.

Joey Foreman
Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist

[Joey Foreman]

https://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103906c6dea-7a2ca.html

Joey Foreman
Editor/Compositor/VFX Artist

[Dina Angelov]

Thank you, guys. You are as always, life savers.

[Dina Angelov]

Thanks!

[Pax Webb]

Thanks, works great for me, except I always get a blank frame (from the overlaid composition) at the very end of the first loop (or maybe its the first frame of the second loop). Interestingly the blank frame does not reappear for the rest of the project (with dozens of loops). Please note that the whole project doesn’t blank out on that frame, just the composition on the top layer, and just for that one frame of the whole project. Any ideas?